A company has a mission-critical application that must be highly available. They have two endpoints: one in us-east-1 and one in us-west-2. They want to route traffic to the closest healthy endpoint. They use Route 53. What should they do?

Create a weighted routing policy with health checks on both endpoints.

Create a failover routing policy with health checks on both endpoints.

Create a geolocation routing policy with health checks on both endpoints.

Create a latency-based routing policy with health checks on both endpoints.

A company wants to monitor DNS queries for their public hosted zone to detect potential malicious activity and ensure compliance with their security policies. They use Route 53. What should they do?

Enable DNSSEC signing on the hosted zone.

Create a health check for the hosted zone.

Use Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to block malicious domains.

Enable DNS query logging on the hosted zone and send logs to CloudWatch Logs.

A company has a hybrid network with on-premises DNS servers and an Amazon VPC. They want to resolve on-premises hostnames from within the VPC. Which Route 53 feature should be used to forward DNS queries from the VPC to the on-premises DNS servers?

Route 53 Resolver outbound endpoint

Route 53 Resolver inbound endpoint

A company has an API Gateway API with a custom domain name. They want to use Route 53 to route traffic to the API Gateway endpoint. The API is only accessible via HTTPS. What should they do?

Create a CNAME record pointing to the API Gateway endpoint's regional domain name.

Create an A record with the API Gateway endpoint's IP address.

Create an alias record pointing to the API Gateway endpoint.

Create a CNAME record pointing to the API Gateway endpoint's DNS name.

A company has a website hosted on an S3 bucket configured for static website hosting. They want to route traffic to the S3 bucket only for users in North America, and for users in other regions, they want to show a maintenance page hosted on another S3 bucket. They use Route 53. What should they do?

Create a latency-based routing policy with two records: one for North America pointing to the main bucket, and a default record pointing to the maintenance bucket.

Create a weighted routing policy with two records: one for North America pointing to the main bucket, and a default record pointing to the maintenance bucket.

Create a geolocation routing policy with two records: one for North America pointing to the main bucket, and a default record pointing to the maintenance bucket.

Create a failover routing policy with two records: one for North America pointing to the main bucket, and a default record pointing to the maintenance bucket.

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A company has a mission-critical application that must be highly available. They have two endpoints: one in us-east-1 and one in us-west-2. They want to route traffic to the closest healthy endpoint. They use Route 53. What should they do?
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A company wants to monitor DNS queries for their public hosted zone to detect potential malicious activity and ensure compliance with their security policies. They use Route 53. What should they do?
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A company has a hybrid network with on-premises DNS servers and an Amazon VPC. They want to resolve on-premises hostnames from within the VPC. Which Route 53 feature should be used to forward DNS queries from the VPC to the on-premises DNS servers?
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A company has an API Gateway API with a custom domain name. They want to use Route 53 to route traffic to the API Gateway endpoint. The API is only accessible via HTTPS. What should they do?
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25application · medium
A company has a website hosted on an S3 bucket configured for static website hosting. They want to route traffic to the S3 bucket only for users in North America, and for users in other regions, they want to show a maintenance page hosted on another S3 bucket. They use Route 53. What should they do?
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